Shrines
Zamość - my medium sized hometown
The first shrine I want to add to this site will be about my hometown and about small cities in general. Even though nowadays I live in a unimpressive suburbs of a big city in Poland, there is something special about medium or small cities that have some iconic but not widely recognizable monuments. My hometown is Zamość, a city with 60 thousands people, that consist of the ring of standard Polish city districts with commie blocks, schools, supermarkets and so on, and the central old town district that is just like an Italian renaissance city fortress. The photo above shows the heart of Zamość, the Town Hall standing next to Great Market square that is so iconic for me that every time I see this place in person, I'm just so proud of it!
SimCity4 - almost perfect classic city builder
That game is the closest thing that allowed me to make my imagination draw some well functioning cities including sprawling regions with enough precition and the interface was pleasant enough to do so.
Lists of stuff that I like or watched
Section constantly work in progress, too much stuff.
General interests - if something is closely related to computers and/or maps, I'm in!
- Geography - mostly socio-economic
- History - mostly XIX, XX and XXI century
- Computers - mostly software but electronics is on my list to invest time
- Riding a bike! (e-bikes and e-scooters are also quite fun tbh)
- Current things - US election loop, exhausting but I just can't look away, hopefully it's close to an end...
- Music - Have you ever seen those youtube videos with some DJs in the yellow tiled room and caption "I listen to all genres"? Yeah that's my music taste. Also, a lot of silly stuff and I can't play any instruments, even Guitar Hero. Favourite serious song though? Radiohead - Just
Games
I'm not an avid gamer but there were a couple of games that I played for hours and hours
- SimCity 3000 and 4 Deluxe
- The Sims 1 and 2
- The Crew - you know, the one that got shut down by Ubisoft
- Black
- Just Cause 2
- Need For Speed Carbon, Porsche Unleashed (free demo version lol)
- Test Drive 6
- Forza Horizon 4 - briefly as it was free on Xbox windows app
- Grand Theft Auto Vice City, Java version on phones and most notably San Andreas
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- 18 Wheels of Steel
- Michael Jackson Game - yup it was a thing, small platform type game
- Deluxe Ski Jump
- Prince of Persia first ever version
- Alex the Alligator
- Mario - on Windows 95, don't remember the version
Youtubers
YouTube was for many years and still is my main source of conveniently delivered knowledge and entertainment, I'm getting olldscool as I refuse to use tiktok for that. I used to follow some more famous American youtubers and watched closely what's going on in Polish youtube. Many of them become pretty uniteresting after many years, even tho their classic content is golden.
Long and forever unfinished list of great youtube channels: (links, categories and descriptions are in progress)
- Jay Foreman - London Unfinished and Map Men is pure british gold
- Tom Scott
- Geography Now
- Technology Connections
- 8-bit Guy
- Veronica Explains
- Asianometry
- Fireship
- Some More News
- Kraut
- Innuendo Studios
- Adam Something
- Gattsu and Geopold
- Not Just Bikes
- RM Transit
- Big Car
- John Oliver - for me, he's a youtuber, not a HBO show host
- Drew Gooden
- Cody Ko
- Leeja Miller
- David Pakman Show
- The Onion News - absolute classic!
Cozy series
- The Office (🇺🇸 and 🇬🇧) - US was the soulhealer during covid, UK version cringe is way more boring but hits much harder
- Parks and Recreation (🇺🇸) - watched right after The Office US, Pawnee makes any day better
- Trailer Park Boys (🇨🇦)- except the episode with Jimmy Kimmel, what was that?
- Keeping Up Appearances (🇬🇧) - watched repeatedly from free DVDs from TV magazine
- Mr. Bean (🇬🇧) - almost all the stuff with him is great, especially the feature films, including Rat Race, even tho he's playing some mysterious sleepy Italian
- Top Gear (🇬🇧) - with the classic squad
- Phil of the Future (🇺🇸)
- 1670 (🇵🇱) - new Polish comedy series streamed on netflix, set in times of the biggest prosperity of Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth but the characters make fun of current trends and memes
- Ed, Edd, Eddy (🇨🇦) - back in the days when Cartoon Network was a big thing
Serious serieses
- BoJack Horseman (🇺🇸) - the deepest animation you can think of
- Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul (🇺🇸)
- Dexter (about 4 seasons) (🇺🇸)
- The Wire (first and second season) (🇺🇸)
- House of Cards (🇺🇸) - the first Netflix original series I've watched, makes huge impression when you're young, get sadder and less appealing to rewatch when you get older
- Dr House (some episodes) (🇺🇸)
Movies - international, Polish films with descriptions are in progress
- Kontrol (2003 HU) - The film that singlehandedly made me go to Budapest on my own, that dark yet absurd and hopeful climate of the underground.
- City of God (2002 BR)
- Tropa de Elite (2007 BR)
- Drive (2011 US)
- Baby Driver (2017 US)
- Whiplash (2014 US)
- Logan (2017 US CA)
- Ronin (1998 US GB FR)
- Robocop (1987 US)
- District 9 (2009 ZA)
- God Bless America (2011 US)
- Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre (2002 FR)
- Banlieue 13 (2004 FR)
- Taxi 1 and 2 (1998, 2000 FR)
- Léon (1994 US FR)
- In Time (2011 US)
- T-34 (2018 RU) - first movie that I've watched with friends via discord
- Rush Hour 1 and 2 (1998, 2001 US HK)
- Spirited Away (2001 JP)
- Truman Show (1998 US)
- Terminator 1 and 2 (1984, 1991 US)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010 US)
- Wedding Ringer (2015 US) - one of the best movies to watch with wife
